Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening Professor Royce, in his course on Modern Thinkers, spoke of Schopenhaner. This philosopher's doctrine is often wholly misunderstood even by his followers; his opponents especially fail to conceive its dignity. The right opinion is to judge the world as tragic, and we should not try to refute Schopenhauer, but grapple with the tragedy...
There is one thing that is very generally misunderstood about the Annex, and that is the nature of the instruction. The institution was founded to give women exactly the same advantages as are given to men by Harvard college. There are no teachers other than the professors and instructors of the college; the charter forbids that any others be employed...